This is a piece that I wrote for The Media Briefing. It can be seen in situ (including links to source articles) here. The number of UK employed journalists has declined by 6,000 (9%) since 2013 as publishers have had … Continue reading
This week we learned that Vice has entered into a multi year deal with Unilever to support the launch of its new channel Broadly, aimed at young women. Speaking about the deal Eddy Moretti, Vice’s chief creative officer said there … Continue reading
I wrote this article for The Media Briefing. It can be seen on their website, fully linked to sources, here. It was also run by Sparksheet here. It combines original reporting and a lot of desk research. I had the good … Continue reading
There’s a surprising statistic in the Mintel report Charitable Giving UK (November 2014). In the three months to July 2014 the average charity donation by eighteen to nineteen year olds was £46. Let’s get the caveats out of the way. … Continue reading
There’s a new stat in town. For a while now the news industry has been obsessed by the smartphone penetration stat. According to Ofcom it currently sits at 61% of the UK adult population. Of even more interest (to those … Continue reading
Here’s a piece that I wrote for The Media Briefing about the use of data in media (they serialised it and ran it over two days). I thought it might be about “big data” when I started out (see a … Continue reading
